Maybe I am just beyond the times here, but I have just noticed that there is a change in the Brisbane City Council's online cemetery search that nobody seems to have mentioned before. Previously you had to supply a surname (or at least the start of it) and a given name (or at least the first letter of it). This made it very tedious to search for all RAYMONDs (say) as you had to try each letter of the alphabet as the given name. (A. RAYMOND, B. RAYMOND, C. RAYMOND, etc). Now I discover it no longer requires you to provide any given name (although the instructions still say you have to provide at least the first letter ). Now you just put RAYMOND in the surname box and leave the given name empty and out come all the RAYMONDs. A great improvement. So it has now become a lot easier to undertake a "fishing expedition" than it was before. I have no idea if this change is deliberate or an accident (which may be "fixed" in the future) but it's a good time to do those searches that you'd been meaning to! Here's the URL if you have lost it: http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/BCC:STANDARD:451177718:pc=PC_899 Kerry

I'd previously done all my searches with unknown cemetery (and the tedious searches with initials!), but then accidently found that no given name is needed if you specified a cemetery (after all this time!), so even better if they've improved :-) On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:15:06 +1000, Kerry Raymond <kraymond@iprimus.com.au> wrote: > Maybe I am just beyond the times here, but I have just noticed that > there is > a change in the Brisbane City Council's online cemetery search that > nobody > seems to have mentioned before. > > > Previously you had to supply a surname (or at least the start of it) and > a > given name (or at least the first letter of it). This made it very > tedious > to search for all RAYMONDs (say) as you had to try each letter of the > alphabet as the given name. (A. RAYMOND, B. RAYMOND, C. RAYMOND, etc). > > > Now I discover it no longer requires you to provide any given name > (although > the instructions still say you have to provide at least the first letter > ). > Now you just put RAYMOND in the surname box and leave the given name > empty > and out come all the RAYMONDs. A great improvement. > > > So it has now become a lot easier to undertake a "fishing expedition" > than > it was before. I have no idea if this change is deliberate or an accident > (which may be "fixed" in the future) but it's a good time to do those > searches that you'd been meaning to! > > > Here's the URL if you have lost it: > > > http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/BCC:STANDARD:451177718:pc=PC_899 > > > Kerry > > > > > > > Toowoomba Dead Persons Society > www.audps.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-QLD-BRISBANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Hi Kerry, Thanks for sharing. :) I've spent quite a few hours sifting through the alphabet. lol Kind regards, Sherrie. On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:15:06 +1100, Kerry Raymond <kraymond@iprimus.com.au> wrote: > Maybe I am just beyond the times here, but I have just noticed that > there is a change in the Brisbane City Council's online cemetery search > that nobody seems to have mentioned before. > > -- http://www.silkweb.com.au/